# How to Breathe Underwater

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- Book: [How to Breathe Underwater](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-orringer/how-to-breathe-underwater) ([How to Breathe Underwater.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-orringer/how-to-breathe-underwater.md))
- Authors: [Julie Orringer](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-orringer)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-508-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2005-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and compassionate, she reminds us of those rare, exhilarating moments of victory. 'Unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives' Monica Ali, Guardian